I admit to collecting and appreciating all types of weapons simply because it suits my liberal sensibilities.

I will certainly enjoy seeing SDAI wrap his vibrational frequencies around the past life explanation of this.

Collector's of weapons basically are putting a positive bias on the weapon...it's value or rarity, craftmanship, etc.

This is usually to balance a previous negative bias.

As can be assumed if we extend to encompass past lives - all of us have died at the hands of numerous types of weapons.

Starting with swords, spears and scabbards and moving on through pistols, muskets and rifles.

You can probably look at whatever era and weapons you are most attracted too - and realize these same have been involved in your demise in some past.

Some folks love knives and swords - others collect WWI or WWII memorabilia...

Alot of folks can't escape the civil war time period...

Once this realization is made it cancels out the attraction by putting it on equilibrium again.

Soon the positive over-bias or joy of collecting is lost and these objects become like anything else.

Some may see this as a loss, others will realize they are freed from the power these objects held over them...

I have always had a light slightly indented circular scar above my temple - just the perfect shape and size of a bullet.

When I was a child between the ages of 4 and 6 I drew hundreds of tanks and WWII battle scenes. Each drawing was sort of like re-enacting the battle as it unfolded. I drew tank versus tank battles and tanks versus infantry. I would draw the panzers and then the rocket wielding spitfires would blast em to pieces. P38's would be in mortal combat with Messerschmitts and of course the Messerschmitts were going down in flames.

I always had the US win. I also drew all the soldiers with smiles on their faces.

Which tells me all I need to know about my own past. I was likely German and died in battle. I probably hated the US with a passion. I also probably took a gunshot wound to the head. This round, being born to a German mother and a US father would be a great way to work out this past resentment and see the value of the US.

Some of these past deaths we carry with us as physical baggage, other times
the memory is very vivid - and often at an early age we try to put a positive spin on something we viewed very horribly.

By the time I was six, my fascination abruptly ceased and I never drew another tank or war scene again. Something had put this cycle out of phase and the compelling force had been completely canceled out.

With all collections that is usually the way it is...for example after discussing with Mary Anne about burning books - that cancelled out a large part of some past and so now I appreciate them with less of the archival drive and preservation which earlier had been more of a factor.

Don't forget...you asked. ;-)

Best wishes,

SDAI-Tech1